CANCELED: Merchandise w/ Gun Outfit

Exit the void for 44 minutes and step into a dream. The fifth Merchandise record is called A Corpse Wired for Sound. Ever in flux, the Floridian trio who once proclaimed â€œbecome what you areâ€�â€”Carson Cox (vocals/electronics), David Vassalotti (guitar/electronics), Pat Brady (bass)â€”have offered another disarming testament to that statement. Corpse is yet another rebirth.

Following 2014â€™s After the Endâ€”a full-band effort recorded by Cox in his closetâ€”the band stripped back to its core. Filmic and poetic as ever, Corpse is the culmination of a long-distance collaboration between Cox and Vassalotti, of endless overdubbing, sampling, and mutation. Crucially, though, it also the result of Merchandiseâ€™s first-ever journey into an actual recording studio, one in RosÃ , Italy. There, the trio collaborated with an Italian named ICIO. ICIO emboldened Corpseâ€™s impressive architecture of hard drums and searing melodies. The night-music of Corpse was recorded half in the studio and half home, in Tampa as well as Coxâ€™s new adopted bases of New York and Berlin. Formed nearly a decade agoâ€”galvanized by Tampa hardcore and inspired by its miscreant noiseâ€”Merchandise are now a band untethered by geography.